🌿 The Ides of April #Photography #TomOgburn #TheParkwayProjects #Stunday #ArtYear #EastCoastKin

🦉"Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time"🌙
#TheodoreRoosevelt #Illustration #Landscapes

Full Stop #Photography #Landscapes #TomOgburn #TheParkwayProjects #Stunday #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #TheBlueRidgeParkway #TheGreatSmokyMountainsNP

🦉"Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time"🌙
#TheodoreRoosevelt #Illustration #OpenParksNetwork

🍃 Words between the lines of age #Photography #TomOgburn #Landscapes #TheParkwayProjects
#OpenParksNetwork #ClemsonUniversity
#Stunday #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #TheBlueRidgeParkway

🦉"Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time"🌙
#TheodoreRoosevelt #Illustration

🪰The Celadon Hallows Dragoons #Landscapes #TomOgburn #TheParkwayProjects #Stunday #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #OpenParksNetwork #ClemsonUniversity
#TheBlueRidgeParkway #Photography #Illustration

🦉"Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time"🌙
#TheodoreRoosevelt

🪔 #OpenParksNetwork #ClemsonUniversity #TomOgburn #TheParkwayProjects #Stunday #ArtYear #EastCoastKin
#TheBlueRidgeParkway #TheGreatSmokyMountainsNP

🦉"Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time"🌙
#TheodoreRoosevelt

🪔 Trail worn by use; burnished in time #Landscapes #TomOgburn #TheParkwayProjects #Stunday #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #OpenParksNetwork #ClemsonUniversity
#TheBlueRidgeParkway

🦉"Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time"🌙
#TheodoreRoosevelt #Photography #Illustration

🍂 Silver Plume in passing#photography #TomOgburn #TheParkwayProjects #Photography #Landscapes #Stunday #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #Colorado

🦉"Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time"🌙
#TheodoreRoosevelt

Black balsam firs are very odd looking trees, because they are ancient, evolving at higher altitudes. A very dense bark, often covered in green moss & lichen create a display of dark needles & bark set off by brilliant electric green moss, yet this image in black & white & toned sepia by me. Archival Librarians working very much in their own high tech universe derived from our own past the incremental moments when those who have come & gone long before us in their race to record a world lost to Time, now being recovered by a very skilled & dedicated team of very creative folk. As soon as I saw this image I noticed first the moss. It looks like it envelopes all of the tree trunks, even the smaller foreground ones. It was then I noticed the curve of the trail, the pitch—then the limbs, all close to each other & the 90º angle as they grow out from the trunk. I'm pretty sure I know where this trail lies. It's likely near the pinnacle of Mount Mitchell just off the main asphalt trail to the observation structure. I'll hike down it again soon & see it I can get a read on which part of that trail it is. The info listed by the NPS assigns it within The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mount Mitchell & the Parkway overlap at the place I'm almost certain is this location. In titling this work, I used the NPS title at front, then "burnished in time" to align or pair with another image soon to be worked up & titled in an inverted way. The other clue that's evident here seems to be the work of a motorized chopper or trimmer. Not the slingblades, machetes or bush axes of earlier years, which left a more controlled looking cut—but rather the the mangled cuts so indicative of motorized trimmers. Based on that observation I think this to be no earlier than from the late 1960s; more likely 1985 to 1995. If it is a later photo, then the odds are even better I'm correct on where this original image was made. The mysteries of the Clemson OPN system are just mind-boggling.

🦉🪔Trail worn by use; burnished in time #photography #nature #landscapes #TomOgburn #TheParkwayProjects #BlueSkyArtShow #Lines #ArtYear #EastCoastKin 🌲

I'll add the original image below in the comment thread.
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🦉The Celadon Hallows Dragoons #photography #TomOgburn #TheParkwayProjects #BlueSkyArtShow #Lines #ArtYear #EastCoastKin

“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.” ≈ Joseph Campbell 🌙

A picnic table my family ate at on August 9th 1969, 50 years to the day before this photo was made. It's a 1940 vintage steel tubular legged frame with poplar top & benches. A small leaf, spotted green, yellow & brown on one plank, a red rock from Moab, Utah on another. "Someone & someone were down by the pond Looking for something to plant in the lawn Out in the fields they were turning the soil I'm sitting here hoping this water will boil When I look through the window & out on the road They're bringing me presents & saying hello Singing words, words between the lines of age Words, words between the lines of age If I was a junkman selling you cars Washing your windows & shining your stars Thinking your mind was my own in a dream What would you wonder & how would it seem? Living in castles a bit at a time The king started laughing & talking in rhyme Singing words, words between the lines of age Words, words between the lines of age" ≈ Neil Young From posts I made along the way while tracing the journey my family made in 1969, as Neil Young's star was rising. The trace based on Mom's journals she always kept along the way. The images will be divided into 11 correlated sequences of works, each addressing a different facet of the changes I've observed. There are some very different scenarios up there these days & places, almost haunted, brought forward by the entropy & abandoned areas—once large & resplendent picnic grounds. The thing is, the 5 or 6 interwoven narratives that are still extant, are winnowing away pretty fast along the parkways due to all the funding & infrastructure cuts. These old picnic tables being pushed up out of the earth are just plain eerie, considering the number of instances this is occurring. I finally learned what’s causing it, after drilling down on it for a week or so last year. Permafrost changes. Not like in the arctic of course but still around to enough of a degree to do what it’s doing to memories & concrete up there.

Words between the lines of age #photography #TomOgburn #TheParkwayProjects #BlueSkyArtShow #Lines #ArtYear #EastCoastKin ≈ a nod to Neil Young for the title 🪔

“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.” ≈ #JosephCampbell 🌙🦉

🍂 Silver Plume in passing#photography #TomOgburn #TheParkwayProjects #Landscapes #BlueSkyArtShow #Lines #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #Aspens #Nature #Colorado

🪔 Heart Pine Shadows #photography #TomOgburn #TheParkwayProjects #Architecture #BlueSkyArtShow #Lines #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #BlueskyPhotography
#PhotographersOfBluesky #shadows

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
≈ #JosephCampbell

🌙 CCC 1933 TVA worker's cabin #digitalcollage #TomOgburn #TheParkwayProjects #Nature #BlueSkyArtShow #Lines #ArtYear #EastCoastKin

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” ≈ Joseph Campbell 🦉

"In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power." ≈ Chuck Palahniuk At Norris Dam State Park in Eastern Tennessee, a number of 1933 CCC built small wooden cabins are in the second cabin vacation area. All of them were relocated to the park years ago from one of the TVA project towns about 20 miles away, thus becoming some of the oldest CCC constructed homes in the state. On this visit (2023, 90 years from the date they were built) I learned that these little cabins are all about to go through major renovations this winter. This was the only one I could see undergoing work on that day, so I made this image through an older window, four-paned like the window here on the left. I'll be stopping by to see if I can visit and photograph the interior renovations this spring, 2025. The original use for these small homes was for housing TVA workers, actual location unknown to me at the moment but I'm guessing they were probably moved from the dam site area workers' camp up the mountain to the State Park, just on the eastern side of the road over the dam. "CCC 1933 TVA worker's cabin," Norris State Park, Tennessee. It's become the norm for me to flatten out and down into the State Parks surrounding my main four subjects. It's also looking more and more like another Parkway is about to be added to my Parkways Project. The Tennessee Foothills Parkway. As for this parkway? It's construction is still happening, in sections, in real time...and, it dates all the way back to the start of the Blue Ridge Parkway. There is a story as to why the origination dates are so aligned to the beginning start dates of the Blue Ridge and Skyline Drive parkways. It has to do with politics, prestige and power. Imagine. That story will be unveiled in my Substack newsletter and blogs, whch I've not quite started myself.

🌙 CCC 1933 TVA worker's cabin #photography #TomOgburn #TheParkwayProjects #Landscapes #BlueSkyArtShow #Lines #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #GreatSmokyMountainsStatePark #Nature

🦉"Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time." ≈ #TheodoreRoosevelt 💙 ⬇️4ALT